Why support Japan here? China is destined to dominate the region in the future and see its wishes carried out. The real danger would be for Japan, thinking the US would support it 100%, to seek a military confrontation with China. The US needs to remind Japan that it will not get involved in a war vs China and that Japan needs to accept whatever role China is willing to give it in the region. The sooner Japan realizes that it is a satellite of China and not an equal the better.

I hope you post here more often because to many people Japanese nationalism, denialism is just an abstract concept. But you do give it a face, or at least a name. Nothing is to vindicate Asian charge of a remorseless Japan better than to see Japanese nationalism in action on open forum.

Rubbish - China has now published a new passport with a picture that clearly shows other countries' territory as Chinese. That's a blatant provocation, and there's no US hand behind that. Clearly the Chinese Communist Party are trying to shore up their own political future at home by using expansionist nationalism to rally the population to its side.

In fact, the western countries are playing the hard-ball. They are the ones who over the last sixty years have killed and tortured more than 10 million people in other countries, mostly unarmed civilians. They are the greatest murderers and genociders of all times.
In the present case, the US is pushing Japan to start a war with China. Japan is only an occupied territory of the US and not an independent country. Tensions in the region started when the US pivoted to Asia. Just after announcing its pivot policy, it set up a big base in Darwin, Australia, and carried out more than a dozen military exercises in the Asia Pacific region.

"Can you mention how this event started? Who is trying to nationalize the disputed island?"
From the above article:
"But this changed in September, after Japan’s then prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, nationalised the three islands Japan did not already own. It was a clumsy attempt to avoid them falling into the hands of Shintaro Ishihara, a right-wing China-baiter who was governor of Tokyo until late last year."

Oh stop, the US doesn't want war with China. Comments like yours only inflame a situation. Frankly, it sounds to me like you actually want to see conflict.

The US wants to see China rise peacefully and as a responsible stakeholder rather than rising through bullying its neighbors. I'm not saying I am taking Japan's side (actually I think they should likely be Chinese administered), but that doesn't mean the US should appease China simply to avoid war, as appeasement sets a precedent. The US has a legal obligation to defend Japan, it is that simple.

If China truly wanted to avoid conflict with the US until after it has matured militarily as you suggest then it would remove it's ships and jets until it is better equipped and could easily control the islands at a later date while avoiding conflict all together. China is entering Japanese waters now because it is overly nationalistic - no different than Japan.

Actually it is up to US --even not up to Japan as its watchdog-- whether the war would happen. If US goes to far, then the war would come. China's action to protect itself can't interpreted as "agreesive".

"The sources of this chauvinism are not entirely clear." Yes, they are. It's being orchestrated by the CCP to distract people from all the domestic problems in China. Fortunately, they probably don't intend to go war, now at least. Unfortunately, wars can start accidentally, and there is certainly a wing of the CCP and much of the PLA that wants a war now. Also, the Japanses right-wing is so deluded about their country's past that you have to wonder if they were planted by the CCP as part of some grand conspiracy.
This conflict has been brewing since the last one ended in 1945. The terms which the war ended on probably had a lot to do with this - Japan was never driven out of China militarily, and even their surrender to the US was conditional (namely, the continuation of the royal family). No doubt, the education systems in these countries has also have a lot to do with each cuontry's selective view of the past. I know plenty of Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese who are very critical of their own government and society, but when this history comes up, they turn into raving nationalists. For whatever reason, the nationalistic sentiments in East Asia are much more like inter-war Europe than Europe after World War II. I guess not enough people died last time for them to see the futility of such sentiments.

Of course love your country so in light of this 'aggression' you will forget about some deficiencies of beloved motherland and will happily hand over your life to the generals. You are not the only one - there have been celebrations all over Europe when soldiers marched to the front lines 1914. It is very difficult to see clearly. Maybe we are really up for the war this time with China seeing its 'rights' to rule the world violated. This is by no means different than previous big wars. What you write is no different from arguments for previous big wars. German people including elites were fooled into bloody adventure twice last century. They all happily went into it just to see their country ruined.
What is really worrying is that you already accepted heavy casualties as a consequence of following the path of war and compare the mountains of the dead to prove that China can stand bigger one than the west. You really want to have that over (admittedly questionable) ownership of these islands?

All wars end in tears. There are two differences between this potential conflict and the ones from the past:
1. it can still be avoided if BOTH sides behave.
2. the possible mountains of dead can be the highest the world has eve seen.

I have disdain towards hypocritical bullies, not Chinese people per se. Chinese are acting more and more like arrogant bullies while accusing Japanese of being the bullies. So look who is talking...
Your own government is f*cking you all up with their one-party rule but instead of demanding a real change, you blame the Japanese! At least the Arabs were man enough to rise up against tyranny but it looks like Chinese are just too cowards to do anything...

Trumpeting the line that this is strictly about economics and oil is a very foolish approach on these islands, insignificant as they may be. There is a very bitter past history between Japan and China which the end of WWII did not resolve and which continues to fester due to the denials and erasure of history by Japan. The emotions shown by the Chinese are not due to government propaganda they are REAL. To dismiss these and the bloody history that China suffered under Japanese aggression is inexcusable. It is very easy for a third party to say "why can't we all get along" while professing ignorance of what transpired in the past. Both sides need to coolly sit down and negotiate this before it gets out of hand.

digitalraindrop is right. The vast majority of Asian countries have no problem with Japan. Burma and the Philippines have received a lot of development aid from Japan, and many Japanese factories are located in Thailand and Malaysia. Even Taiwan leans more culturally towards Japan than mainland China.

I think Japan's treatment of former war criminals is totally messed up, but saying that Japan's apology is inadequate to the rest of Asia is a big exaggeration. Only the Korea and China still have issues with this.

And if a real conflict or shooting war develops out of this, I trust that history some decades from now will record it as one of the absolutely stupidest international incidents in the history of humanity.

Unless, of course, it's about ownership and drilling into a continental shelf for oil, as was the real foundation for Argentina's claims on the Falkland Islands...

Firstly, stop being so jealous of China. Do you believe in the traditional Indian concept of Karma? If you do, then you should not harbour ills on someone who did not do you harm. China did not colonise India, even though we are neighbours. In fact, I can tel you that the vast majority of Chinese (and overseas Chinese) have always been friendly towards Indians. China did it impose a foreign language onto your people such as you now only use to talk to your own compatriots. But see for yourself, how India's obsession for acceptance by the West have gained? Indians were discriminated against in Australia but not at all in Asia. India, even before it starts to be a so-called "threat" to the West, she is already being identified as a most serious threat to the West's Service sectors/industries becos you guys can speak the English language. An advanced economy is typically 65% service-based economy (banking, insurance, tourism, education, medical, and accounting).

Be careful, I predict that before India reaches the stage of development as China is now, she will be targetted by Western media for "stealing" Western jobs for India will be the source of the most serious threat to the well-paying 'service sectors' jobs.

World War II is over. If the Chinese start shooting here they are starting a new war. Did Hitler aggress against Poland? Not if it was just an extension of World War I where territory Germany had held for a long time was taken away from it.

You cannot have peace if you are not going let what happened to earlier generations go. The international community has to draw a line somewhere and say that after so many decades have passed, that's it, restarted something counts as aggression. The Soviets expelled Japanese from the Kuriles in 1945 and confiscated their homes. Nothing like that happened to any Chinese re the Senkakus in 1897.

I might add that your analogy about Goebbels and Goering might apply if they were buried there with another million German servicemen in a mass grave with Goebbels and Goering given no recognition above the rest. Absent that, your analogy is misleading.